Catholic priest charged with stalking Conan O'Brien

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By Boston Herald staff  |   Friday, November 9, 2007  |  http://www.bostonherald.com  |  

The Rev. David Ajemian, 46, a Massachusetts Catholic priest, is charged with harassing and stalking late-night comic Conan O'Brien starting in September 2006.Yesterday, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office released documents detailing Ajemian's alleged harassing missives to O'Brien.

In a letter dated "2/20 MardiGras" and signed "Padre 009," the writer complains about not being able to get into O'Brien's show, writing: "I'm told by some of those officious little usher people that you're overbooked and to get the *** off the premises!!! Is this the way you treat your most dangerous fans??? You owe me bigtime pal. I want a public confession before I even consider giving you absolution or else a spot on your couch. I'm through with waiting in bogus lines on the mezzanine. I sure hope this complaint gets through the next line of flunkies --- to you sir."

In a July 2 letter signed Dave Ajemian, the writer compares himself to Robert DeNiro's character in the 1983 movie "The King of Comedy." DeNiro's character, aspiring comedian Rupert Pupkin, stalks his idol, a late-night talk show host and kidnaps him. "To call myself a sort of Rupert Pupkin (Remember DeNiro here) is perhaps not far off the mark. But I assure you a stalker of a very different order than the kind you are used to dealing with," the letter reads.

In an April 26 letter sent to O'Brien at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, Ajemian allegedly wrote: "I'm not Seung-Cho, even if I did once look out on that dark and dreaded doorway on West 72nd St." (Seung-Hui Cho is the Virginia Tech student who slaughtered 32 people on campus last April and killed himself.)

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[Renfield]

The need for psychotherapy most prominent, once more... But at least he went straight enough to the point about it, Rev. Ajemian! And this almost reminds me of some representatives of the Greek Orthodox clergy I'm aware of, but for now I shall hold my peace.